“Quick!” he told the people. “Get away from the tents of these wicked men, and don’t touch anything that belongs to them. If you do, you will be destroyed for their sins.” (Numbers 16:26)
When you are connected to the wrong people, you share in their sins. It could be that you are connected with them on FB or Instagram or Subscribed to their Youtube Channel. One needs to disconnect.
And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer and put fire in it from off the altar and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them. For there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague has begun! (Numbers 16:46)
Incense is symbolic of prayer. David prayed, “May my prayer be set before you like incense. – (Psalm 141:2)
Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. (Revelation 5:8)
So Aaron took the burning censer as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and behold, the plague was begun among the people; and he put on the incense and made atonement for the people. (Numbers 16:47)
Aaron is a picture of an intercessor who prays for the people. His intercession stops all the people from being consumed by the plague
And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stayed. (Numbers 16:48)
An intercessor is not only who stands between God and the people but is also a person who stands between life and death. An intercessor will stop the plague from spreading in the house, in the ministry, in the city and in the country. If there is no intercessor - people will perish. That’s how important intercession is.
Why the plague comes? Does God send the plague? No
As long as the Presence of God is around us and in us we are protected.
When this Presence withdraws (now I don’t claim to know everything) it opens a door for the enemy to come in.
I want to ask you a few questions, please answer them for me
If a person works in a bank does it mean that he or she will never have financial problems? Now just because the person who is working in a bank has some financial problem does that person stop working in the bank.
Just because you are a doctor or a nurse does that mean you will never fall sick. Now if a doctor or a nurse falls sicks does that mean something is wrong with the medical profession itself? NO
There are people who say how can I intercede for others when I myself have problems.
There are people who say I am praying for others then why am I having problems? Now mind you those so called problems are not major but minor issues.
I myself am depressed how can I make others smile…
Every clown in the circus is not laughing behind that mask. Some are literally crying and yet making thousands smile and laugh. This is called paying the price. There is a price to pay in intercession but the rewards are greater than the price paid.
Intercessor - Anna the Prophetess
And there was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having lived with her husband seven years from her maidenhood,
And as a widow even for eighty-four years. She did not go out from the temple enclosure, but was worshiping night and day with fasting and prayer. (Luke 2:36-37)
She literally saw God with her naked eyes. She probably carried Him in her arms and kissed Him. Remember she was a woman who had no children of her own.
Chapters
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 33